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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Donald Trump: Oscars Flub Was Due to Obsession Over ME!

This is all your fault, Jimmy Kimmel.


Throughout Sunday night’s telecast of the 89th Academy Awards, the host taunted Donald Trump, at various points even Tweeting at the President to ask if he was awake.


He may or may not have been during the show.


But Trump is now claiming to be woke when it comes to why the Oscars effed up its Best Picture reveal in such shocking manner.



By now, you very likely are aware of what transpired:


Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were given the wrong envelope upon presenting the event’s most important award.


Still, the veteran stars carried on with their duty and announced La La Land as the Best Picture winner because the card read “Emma Stone, La La Land” (it was a duplicate of the Best Actress card).


After that film’s cast and crew took the stage and even started to give acceptance speeches, Kimmel and an Academy Awards employee rushed out to confirm the error:


Moonlight had actually won Best Picture.


It was a truly crazy scene. Check it out below:



Why did it happen?


Auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company in charge of the envelopes, has taken responsibility and issued an apology for a mistake made by one of its long-time employees.


But they aren’t to blame, according to Trump.


He tells fake news outlet Breitbart that the event’s obsession with him is actually the reason why it made such a giant miscue.


“I think they were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end,” Trump told the website yesterday, adding:


“It was a little sad. It took away from the glamour of the Oscars. It didn’t feel like a very glamorous evening. I’ve been to the Oscars. There was something very special missing, and then to end that way was sad.”


One could say that a small, moving, diverse movie such as Moonlight winning Best Picture was actually a happy development; an unexpected, glorious, inspiring ending to the Oscars.


But the person saying that would definitely not be Donald Trump.



Going into the Academy Awards, most viewers assumed acceptance speeches would be filled with political references and Trump insults.


But there was actually very little political posturing.


Yes, of course Kimmel took aim at the POTUS during the show at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre.


“I want to say thank you to President Trump. Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?” he said in his opening monologue of the 2015 #OscarsSoWhite controversy.


“It’s gone thanks to him.”



Later on, Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal spoke out about the planned border wall, saying:


“As a Mexican, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of wall that separates us.”


Iranian director Asghar Farhadi had a statement read on his behalf when he won for Best Foreign Language Film that stated he didn’t attend “out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations whom have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S.”


That was about it, though.


And it somehow seems unlikely that Farhadi’s letter or Bernal’s point of view affected the Best Picture snafu.


Donald Trump Jr., meanwhile, also slammed the Oscars on Twitter on Monday.


“Interesting mistake, its almost like Hollywood doesn’t really care about the little people behind the scenes,” he wrote, including a link to a story about the Academy putting a photo of still-alive producer Jan Chapman in the “In Memoriam” segment.


He’s clearly right.


This error was entirely representative of how celebrities don’t care about little people behind the scenes.



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Monday, February 27, 2017

Steve Harvey Responds to Best Picture Flub: I"ve Been There, Folks!

Steve Harvey suddenly has something significant in common with Warren Beatty.


But it has nothing to do with the massive number of women with whom Beatty has had sex.


Instead, it’s the embarrassment of making an epically famous mistake on a national awards show stage.



In December of 2015, Harvey concluded the Miss Universe Pageant by announcing Miss Colombia as the winner.


The only problem at the time? Miss Colombia was not actually the winner.


That honor actually belonged to Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines, a gross error that Harvey was forced to come out and admit minutes after misinforming the audience initially.


It was quite the snafu, although it didn’t do much harm to Harvey’s career.


Considering he was invited back to host the same beauty pageant a year later.



On Sunday night, meanwhile, Warren Beatty was at the center of the greatest gaffe in Academy Awards history.


Due to an envelope mix-up that really was not his fault, the legendary actor helped tell the world that La La Land had won Best Picture for 2017.


Except it hadn’t.


Moonlight had won Best Picture for 2017.


Watch this VERY awkward snafu take place in the following video:



Soon after the proper victor was crowned, host Jimmy Kimmel tried to lighten the tense mood, quipping on stage:


“Guys, this is very unfortunate what happened. Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this.”


It was a pretty good line, but it also gave Harvey a chance to milk the situation for as much attention as he possibly could.


“Good morning everybody! Went to sleep early last night. So…what I miss? #Oscars,” the comedian Tweeted this morning, prior to using the mistake as a PR opportunity.


“Tune in to @SteveHarveyFM at 8 AM ET today for my response to last night’s #Oscars . YOU KNOW I have something to say,” he added.






On his radio show, Harvey proceeded to wax at length about the Oscars flub.


“I know all about this. I know more than anyone else in the world about this,” said the 60-year-old. “I am the creator of these moments. The epicurean of this.”


Harvey went on reference a number reactions made on social media to the televised mistake.


“Because Warren made a mistake, does he have to die?” Harvey joked. “Should he lose his life? Y’all wanna kill him? Well he needs security because of this.”


Prior to the cast and crew from Moonlight accepting the Best Picture prize, Beatty jumped back on the microphone and explained what happened, saying he was confused the second he opened the envelope because it read “Emma Stone, La La Land.”


Since this snafu took place, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the auditing firm that tallies the Oscars votes, issued an apology and took responsibility.



“Me and Warren handled it great. It’s me and Warren’s thing,” added Harvey.


“We handled it great. At least the producers of the Oscars walked out with him… and they corrected the mistake on the night.”


Concluded Harvey on his show:


“Warren I know your pain!”


“I can help Warren get through this. I’m [going to] show him how to handle it with dignity and grace. Thank God for producers who stand with their talent. Unlike waiting the next day to handle it with the press, as it was suggested in my ear…


“I can help Warren get through this. Call me Warren, baby.”


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Epic Oscars Flub Inspires Internet: See the Best Memes!


It was the Gaffe Heard and Seen and Laughed at "Round the World.


To wrap up the 2017 Academy Awards, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope.


As a result, they announced La La Land as Best Picture… only for the cast and crew to take to the stage and be told that an epic mistake had occurred. 


The winner was actually Moonlight.


In response, director Barry Jenkins was handed the trophy and gave a speech – and the Internet sprung into action!


Here"s a look at the most hilarious memes this stunning mistake inspired shortly after it was made:




1. A True Stunner


A true stunner

We did NOT see this coming.



2. Like Half the Internet Did This


Like half the internet did this

But it had to be one.



3. This Also Had to Be Done


This also had to be done

Why is Beyonce always getting robbed?!?



4. Beyonce?!?


Beyonce

What about Amy Adams?!?



5. A-HA!


A ha

Now it all makes sense.



6. Better Late Than Never


Better late than never

We never stopped believing in you, Elle Woods.


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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Miss Teen South Carolina Reflects Back On Embarrassing 2007 Flub

No one will ever forget the gobbly gook answer Miss Teen South Carolina Caitlin Upton gave when Friday Night Lights" Aimee Teegarden asked why a percentage of Americans couldn"t locate our country on a world map.


"I definitely went through a period where I was very, very depressed," Upton told New York Magazine in a Where Are They Now-type series on past internet sensations.


"I had some very dark moments where I thought about committing suicide. The fact that I have such an amazing family and friends, it really, really helped."


Upton got a little upset talking about the incident, in which she nervously rambled for 30 seconds.


"This is the first time I’ve actually been able to talk about it. It was awful, and it was every single day for a good two years.


"I’ve only spoken to my fiancé about how I felt in those moments truthfully, and my best friend. And, recently, my mom. But, like, my dad doesn’t even know yet.


People were awful to Upton after the flub.  


"I lost a lot of close friends over it — people I’d been friends with since I was 10, people I grew up playing soccer with," Upton, who is now engaged and works as a model, admitted.


"One group of girls took me to this party at the University of South Carolina, and I walk in, and the entire USC baseball team surrounded me and bashed me with the harshest, meanest comments I had ever heard."


Others would leave threatening letters in Upton"s parents" mailbox; one even read "GO DIE CAITE UPTON, GO DIE FOR YOUR STUPIDITY."


Though she"s not fully over her 15 minutes of infamy, Upton is thankful for another model who shares the same name.


"The past few years, going brunette, I have not had any recognition for the Miss Teen USA Pageant at all," Upton said. "But I also get recognized for having a similar name to Kate Upton. So I’ll go into my auditions and be like, "Yes, yes, I know — I’m the other one.""


I still feel SO BAD for this girl.


Miss teen south carolina reflects back on embarrassing flub